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It wasn't "Windhorst's hit piece." It was a blog post on Cavs: The Blog. Windhorst didn't choose to post it. Windhorst answered a blunt question from the person interviewing him, then Cavs: The Blog posted it on their own accord.

Thought provoking. Wow - 450 acres. I never did fully realize just how much space that was until reading this article. The Burke property could fit three 18-hole golf course on it. Six Crocker Parks. One Cedar Point with about 90 acres left over. And do what with it? That's precisely my point. What can we do with it? What's feasible under what timeline? You don't know. I don't know. I think the airport is really cool, but the author is correct in that it's time to really look at whether the airport is the best use of the space. Is it really time to look at that? I see people say this all the time, but the city hasn't even developed the waterfront space it has, let alone adding that much space for redevelopment right now. Honestly, maybe the right time to look at that would be...10 years? Really. No, in a vaccum I don't think Burke is is the greatest use of space, but it does have SOME benefits...and I find the general suggestion I've been seeing that Burke somehow added to hub troubles a little silly. Right when that merger went through, CLE became redundant...it was inevitable.

I actually go to Atlanta a lot, and the sprawl in traffic is indeed a nightmare. There's a lot of hope for the future, though. They have a downtown streetcar loop under construction along with a light rail/ bike paths/ walking paths loop that encircles the whole city called the "Belt line." They were even hoping to add some street car connections to it as well. Actually, even with their sprawl, I'd say Atlanta is making a lot more progress transportation wise than my hometown of Cleveland is... Unfortunately, the suburbs farther from the city always vote down extending MARTA out to it for, ahem, "crime" reasons....If only the entire region could actually see the benefit of expanding the train system to actual locations people live. Atlanta is close to being a really great city.

I know at least violent crime seems to be decreasing overall the past decade or so in the US, but does anyone know the statistics and trends for Cleveland the past decade?

Rail could be needed....through the west side. I wonder if they'll ever do a study of a line through Lakewood...but that's for another thread...

I had heard we had been contacted by the RNC and the DNC for potential interest in hosting a 2016 political convention. Someone pointed out that Charlotte had 31,000 rooms available in its county for the DNC, and that wasn't regarded as not enough. So now I am kind of curious, does anyone have a rough number of what our room capacity in the county might be by 2016?

^So I'm guessing the transportation center idea isn't being looked at as long as they are only looking for funds just a pedestrian bridge?

My friends lived above La Dolce Vita on that corner. I think the landlord is a little kooky, I think his name is Terry something, but otherwise they seemed to have no serious complaints. I want to say they paid upper 800s for a two bedroom? I was not impressed with a lot of house/duplex apartments I saw on the side streets, but maybe there's some nice ones. This is kind of a random, but I am gay white guy and maybe two years ago I was looking for an apartment in Little Italy with my then boyfriend, who was a black guy. I talked to the landlord of this http://goo.gl/maps/IXnYB one on the phone but just refereed to my boyfriend as my "roommate" just to be safe. So we drove there to meet him to check out the place one day, and right when he sees both of us together he kind of strangely says "I actually rented this apartment out already, but you can come look at it because we might have an opening in a few months" or something like that. I was totally confused and bummed, but looked anyway, and was then more bummed because I actually liked it a lot for the price range we had. After that, maybe a week later, we checked out some dinky little house that was really not kept up well. The landlord actually ended up being a lesbian with a mixed race daughter, so she was cool with us, but she told us there was a "race" issue with some of the older landlords and such in Little Italy. I honestly never would have imagined it, but then after my experience with that one guy I am not sure. I've always sort of wondered if he just turned as away fast because either he could tell we were gay (which i don't think was really obvious, but we were gonna be living together) or because of his race, because after that he still had the for rent sign and such up. Anyone else ever hear or experience anything remotely similar?

So the solution is build a completely different transportation system that we can pay for ALONG along with the ones that aren't maintained? The bridge isn't about being cool. It's about getting people effectively to the Lake front. The speed is fine, but a healthline bus has a seating capacity of 47 people in one vehicle. You are moving a fraction of that amount of people in a gondola. I have a hard time imaging the cost to build this and maintain it is going to be worth its revenue, the efficiency of it as a transportation "solution" (I am bring this up because Jon Stahl is the one who has described it as a solution numerous times), or the draw of this as some sort of attraction. No, I am not saying it won't look nice in videos and on photos for the people in charge of advertising Cleveland, but I am questioning if the draw it will have is worth the cost and cost of maintaining. You say it can possibly make money, but projects like these usually have at least year to two year studies to determine if its worth building, but that hasn't happened. Seems silly to think we should just plan it into the CC hotel. I am skeptical because the city could possibly use that money to do a lot of different and more effective things than a gondola. I have nothing against cool views or original ideas, but this gives me the feeling that I am in Springfield and being sold on the idea of a monorail.

Yeah, the tube is shaped like a semicircle and split in half. Is there a thread specifically for the bridge? Also, I will say that if the skylift goes 26 mph, that's actually faster than I would have expected, which is good. I'm mixed about it.

Yeah but these are limited number of cars moving down a straight line. Not really efficient enough to call it a solution. If its built I just hope it's self sustaining.

Not to sound rude, but what is the problem that the skylift is a solution to? These things aren't really fast and efficient people movers. The bridge is a solution, this seems like just a gimmick. My fear as well. Has a study on it even been done? Seems a little late to include it in a the CC hotel design

Hate being negative, but I really dislike Joe Calabrese and I really dislike the health-line. I'm always waiting 15 extra minutes for a bus that the sign in the stop says will arrive in "2 minutes." I always see 2-3 drive by, clumped up behind each other. I can't ever understand the voice that calls off the stops...ugh. Clearly I am personally biased against buses in general, but I don't see "BRT" helping attract young professionals downtown. Wish they had done something different...progress goes so slow.